The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-12-29
NJ NYE ON COPYRIGHT,
Draws Out Few Heartfelt Senti-
ments From Author.


dining Years-An Imposition on Gen.
alanger-The Clergyman Whose Prayers
re Filched from Him-A Bad Showing
Naughty Literary Pirates.
bme time ago. in order to ascertain
sentiments of leading lights in lit
ure and other walks of life, | wrote
b large number of prominent peo'
asking the following questions;
irst-Who is your fayorite prose
ter ?
cond- Who is your favorite verse
rp
lird-What hair resorter has helped
most ?
Fourth-What is your opinion of in
national copyright
Fifth Have you three or four dollars
hand which you are not using
6ixth-What is your opinion of capt.
punishment
Seventh--What will you do with
spberry jelly that will not jell P
Most of these questions so far have
Ell ignored, but number of answers
We already arrived, and ] have col
pted those which bear mostly on the
cstion of international copyright. l
not, say that they seriously attempt
bower the ground, but these letters
W how intensely every one has been
used both hcre and abroad.
Mr.. Swinburne, in answer TO the
ter referred to above. says briefly
I tersely:
DEAR SIR: | am in receipt of your
ocular letter in which you ask me who
Y favoritc prose and verse writers
re, also my opinion of the interna-
onal copyright matter, what books
ave helped me most and what best to
o i'm my opinion with jelly that will
lot jell.
Postpon;ng my answers for the pres
1t in so far as they relate to the other
ieries. l will say that think better
arrangement for international protec-
bn to authors between English-speak-
kg countries is necessary, paramount
nd all-pervading. The Americans |
Understand, read my poems behind the
arm, refuse to pay me a royalty on
hem and then, to heap additional
name and obloquy upon me, they
anne their domestic animals after me.
had always believed the Americans to
|e wild and hearty, but generoes race.
was taught to regard them as people
Who wore their trousers and stab knives
b their bootlegs, but loved to see fair
|lay; but when | am chiselled out of
ny ready kopecks, and INSCRIPTIONS
|hblishers on this side stand in with
merican hustlers to cable my bran
ew tragedy across the Atlantic before
can sign it and turn around TO spit,
id then emphasize their bloody insult
christening Percheron horse in
inois with my name in full, | say that
erature is at a low ebb in your coun-
".
You, are all Eagle Screams and
burth of July and Starry Banner
cc and blooming brag, by Jove. and
cider. | sometimes wish that | had
ZEN born with just barely brains
ough for my own use. You cannot
hlly understand how it eXhausts one
jerk the Tyre for all creation and not
i half paid for it..
But some day the coarse and greedy
nerican will wake up and demand
poem that shall be soaked full of q
musical and rythmical violation of
statutes in such case made and pro-
led, and he will ask for the use of
four-horse teeming brain. but it
be stilled forever. Then he will
sorry and will come aud white off
ces of my fence to remember me by,
90 down into my wine cellar and
and say that England and the
rid have met with great loss, and
will be right about it. You hear
ALGERsoN CHARLES SwINBUrNE
zen. Boulanger cables:
in: Will you pardon me to try and
egram you in yours own language
ID I Oh sf>say to you9 l am the
hat you should nominate
leYNMarch," which am to
Ind is what you should desig-
FOUR country one grand crazy.
6oN bp
my ears IL comes every little fire.
AL, a. won aav that IN hear any-